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LEFT WILSON 380 WILSON is the Life of the Nation"; "The Repub- lican and Democratic Parties" (1868) ; etc. He also was the author of "History of the Anti-Slavery Measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth United States Congresses" (1865) ; "Military Measures of the United States Con- gress" (1866) ; "Testimonies of Ameri- can Statesmen and Jurists to the Truths of Christianity" (1867) ; "History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty- ninth and Fortieth Congresses, 1865- 1868" (1868) ; "History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America" (3 vols. 1872-1875) ; etc. He died in Wash- ington, D. C, Nov. 22, 1875. WILSON. HENRY LANE, an Ameri- can diplomat, born in Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1857. He was educated at Wa- bash College and received the degree of Ph. D. from the National University of Chile, in 1911. From 1882 to 1885 he was editor of the Lafayette (Ind.) "Journal," and from 1885 to 1896 he was engaged in the practice of law and in banking in Spokane, Wash. In 1889 he was appointed minister to Venezuela, by President Harrison, but declined. From 1897 to 1905 he was United States minister to Chile, and from 1905 to 1910 United States minister to Belgium. Ap- pointed ambassador to Turkey in 1909, he was transferred to Mexico before taking charge, serving in the latter country from 1909 to 1913, when he re- signed. WILSON, JAMES, an American agri- culturist; born in Ayrshire, Scotland, Aug. 16, 1835. He removed with his father to the United States in 1852, and in 1855 settled in Iowa. He served three terms in the Iowa Legislature, being speaker for two years. He was elected to the 43d, 44th and 48th Congresses. In 1891 he was Professor of Agriculture in the Iowa Agricultural College. In 1897 he was appointed Secretary of the Department of Agriculture in the cab- inet of President McKinley; was reap- pointed in 1901; and retained by Pres- ident Roosevelt on his accession the same year. He died in 1920. WILSON, JAMES GRANT, an Amer- ican author; born in New York City, April 28, 1832; served in the Civil War. Besides numerous addresses, essays, and articles in periodicals, he published: "Biographical Sketches of Illinois Offi- cers" (1862-1863); "Love in Letters. Illustrated in the Correspondence of Eminent Persons" (1867) ; "Life of Gen- eral Grant" (1868-1885) ; "Life of Fitz- Greene Halleck" (1869) ; "Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers" (1874) ; "Poets and Poetry of Scotland" (1876) ; "Centennial History of the Diocese of New York, 1775-1885" (1886) ; "Bryant and His Friends" (1886); "Commodore Isaac Hull and the Frigate Constitution" (1889) ; Life of General Grant" (1897) ; "The President of the United States" (1901) ; etc. He was the editor (with John Fiske) of "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography" (6 vols. 1886- 1889), and alone of "Memorial History of the City of New York." He died in 1914. WILSON, JAMES HARRISON, an American military officer; bom in Shaw- neetown, 111., Sept. 2, 1837; was gradu- ated at the United States Military Academy in 1860 and assigned to the De- partment of Oregon in the topographical engineer service. During the Civil War he served with distinction as an engi- neer, notably at the Richmond raid and the operations near Petersburg. He commanded the 3d Division of Sheridan's cavalry in 1864; participated in the cap- ture of Fort Pulaski and the campaigns of Antietam, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and the Wilderness; commanded in the assault and capture of Selma and Mont- gomery, Ala., Columbus and Macon, Ga., and took a leading part in the capture of Jefferson Davis. On July 28, 1866, he was brevetted Major-General, U. S, A., for gallant and meritorious services during the war, and on Dec. 31, 1870, was honorably discharged at his own re- quest. After leaving the army he was engaged in large railroad and engineer- ing operations both in the United States and abroad, and on the outbreak of the Spanish-American War was appointed Major-General of volunteers and was as- signed to the command of the 1st Divi- sion, 1st Army Corps, in the campaign in Porto Rico. His publications include "China, Travels and Investigations in the Middle Kingdom"; "Life of Andrew Alexander"; "Life of General Grant"; etc. WILSON, JEREMIAH MORROW, an American jurist; born in Warren co., O., Nov. 25, 1828; received an academic education; was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette co., Ind., in 1860-1865 ; judge of the Circuit Court in 1865-1871 ; member of Congress in 1871- 1875; declined a renomination ; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D. C. During his professional career in that city Judge Wilson was connected with numerous famous eases. Besides having acted as attorney for the Union Pacific railroad and the Mormon Church, he was counsel for the plaintiff in the Breckinridge-Pollard breach of promise